Rules to Protect Buyers From Installment Racketeers
A UPI summary detailing how unscrupulous installment sellers prey on vulnerable customers. It cites a 71-year-old widow who paid 30000 for dance lessons and a District of Columbia case where a poor widow faced unmanageable debt. The piece urges federal action and lists buyer safeguards on contracts, payments, and maintenance.
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Washington
UPI
National Better Business Bureau
District of Columbia
Ora Williams
Court of Appeals
New Hampshire Sweeps Set Christmas Sales Record
The New Hampshire Sweepstakes Commission announced that the week before Christmas set a sales record with 20,578 tickets sold from Dec 20 to 24, bringing the 1966 total to 222,731 tickets and $668,193 in value. A Jan 5 bonus drawing will award fifty $100 prizes to those who bought tickets before Dec 24. The surge is credited to gifts, business incentives, sweepstakes clubs, and a Christmas bonus drawing.
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Concord
N.H
UPI
New Hampshire
Tufts Professor Edits Connecticut Pennsylvania Boundary Papers
Medford Massachusetts Tufts University associate professor Robert J Taylor edits the Susquehannah Company papers detailing the long boundary dispute between Connecticut and Pennsylvania The 18th century land grant and subsequent trials shaped colonial and early federal governance The project funds support and a Tufts Eaton Library office with a General Services Administration grant
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Medford
Mass
Tufts University
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
Robert J. Taylor
Land Grant Company
Susquehannah Company
Wyoming Valley
Susquehannah
New Milford
Wyoming Historical and Geological Society
Julian P. Boyd
Thomas Jefferson
Taylor
Marietta College
Ohio
Institute of Early American History and Culture
Williamsburg
Tufts
Eaton Library
U.S. General Services Administration
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